Word: oswald
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...that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...This foible seemed the particular property of the villains. Matt Conley in the most unkindest role of all, the bastard Edmund, exercised enough wit and restraint to stay this side of melodrama. But Regan (Phoebe Brand) and Goneril (Ludi Claire) ranted and raved, groaned and grimaced. Robert Benedict's Oswald was arch and despicable, Nick Smith's Cornwall took appropriate relish in kicking out Gloucester's eyes; these actors' evil was far too lunatic to be cruel. The audience tittered...
...Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only once, while dressed as Marc Antony at a Munich carnival, but he had read that master pessimist well...
...proud and subtle Jay. But wise old Franklin advised the younger men to wait patiently for the main chance, and in the spring of 1782 it came. Lord Shelburne, soon to be named Prime Minister of England, invited Franklin to initiate a correspondence. A few weeks later Richard Oswald, a sagacious Scot, arrived in Paris with authority to negotiate. Franklin dutifully informed Vergennes, and then informed Oswald of the principal American peace conditions: "compleat independence," territorial integrity, freedom to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, freedom to navigate the Mississippi, no treaty without full French approval...
...avid to make history, who demanded total acquittal on grounds of insanity. Like some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...